GTP.
Three letters that defined a golden age of motorsports: sleek, fast cars backed by many of the world’s top brands. From 1981 through 1993, GTP served as the top rung in American endurance racing.
Well, the name is coming back.
For 2023, the forthcoming Le Mans Daytona h prototypes will carry the GTP name in IMSA competition.
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That's cool. It's great to see those letters again. I like "hearing" John D "speak". It's great to have him directly in the IMSA mix now. Positive. Very cool.
Yup, it's very cool seeing those letters together again. Amazing how something seemingly so simple can conjure up such emotions.
For those who didn't click the link to read the entire piece, here's our recent interview with John. (And looks like we might have to do a follow-up already.)
David S. Wallens said:Next, bring back GTO and GTU.
And bring back a rotary car to dominate those classes again ..
In reply to dannyp84 :
I'll relay that message. :)
Yes! Bring back the rotaries!
Good to see it back the name makes perfect sense plus I'm glad to see the name of races out of the prototype name as I was never the biggest fan of that. I reminds me of something Sean heckman mentioned on one of the blunder races which he felt a problem with SportsCar racing was the lack of consistency in class names compared to other racing. We had gtp the wsc,sr,Srp,lmp,dp,dpi
WoodyatTR said:Yes! Bring back the rotaries!
Top tier racing needs more angry bees!
And some related pics from Daytona today.
In reply to WoodyatTR :
Sadly, Mazda left at the end of '21 and probably won't be coming back any time soon.
And those who joined us on our Midnight Tour got to hear about GTP from IMSA President John Doonan. 
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